and you'll find shelves of books organized by popular book genres. Of course, there's a division between fiction (made up) and nonfiction (true) stories, but the categories don't stop there.

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When we talk about a book’s genre, we mean the type or kind of book it is. There are lots of different genres. In fiction texts (ones that have been made up from a writer’s imagination ...